Common Core Key Issue In Alabama’s GOP Primary

May 27, 2014Tim LocketteAssociated Press

Common Core has emerged as the one issue that every Republican candidate in Alabama must address before the June 3 primary. Anti-Core activists, who see the new school standards as a federal power grab, are mounting electoral challenges to key GOP incumbents. Sitting Republican lawmakers face the scorn of tea partiers for supporting Common Core, or simply for appearing to be on the fence about the issue. And a secretive group has funneled $700,000 into Stop Common Core PAC, suddenly vaulting the newly-formed political action committee into the ranks of Montgomery’s top political spenders.